Article
Genetic study and further biochemical characterization of a tobacco mutant that overproduces sterols.
Molecular & general genetics : MGG - 1 Dec 1991
Maillot-Vernier P, Gondet L, Schaller H, Benveniste P, Belliard G
Abstract excerpt
A genetic and biochemical characterization is presented of a tobacco mutant that was previously shown to have an increased sterol content with an accumulation of biosynthetic intermediates. We first show that a precise regulation of the membrane sterol composition occurs in this mutant, via a selective esterification process. Indeed, sterols representing the usual end-products of the biosynthetic pathway are...
Topics
- Crosses, Genetic
- Drug Resistance
- Mutation
- Phenotype
- Plants, Toxic
- Sterols
- Nicotiana
- Triazoles